Submit a Missed Connection

The Ballard Mallard

Submit a Missed Connection

For the stranger you shared a moment with. For the one who got away. For the person who held the door at Cafe Besalu.

Keep it under 150 words. Tell us where and when it happened and enough detail that the right person will recognize themselves. No last names. No addresses. No workplaces specific enough to identify someone who may not want to be identified. We publish anonymously unless you say otherwise.

Ballard Farmers Market, The Sloop, the 40 bus

Approximate date and time

150 words maximum

0 / 150 words

"The guy in the green beanie" / "Table 4 at Bitterroot"

Never published. Only used if we need to reach you.

We edit for length, clarity, and to protect identities. We reject anything threatening, sexual in a way that wouldn't run in a newspaper, or targeting someone who clearly doesn't want to be found. Submission is not publication.